Cardiff University | Prifysgol Caerdydd ORCA
Online Research @ Cardiff 
WelshClear Cookie - decide language by browser settings

Adsorption of methylamine on mackinawite (FES) surfaces: A density functional theory study

Dzade, Nelson Y. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-9473, Roldan Martinez, Alberto ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0353-9004 and De Leeuw, Nora H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8271-0545 2013. Adsorption of methylamine on mackinawite (FES) surfaces: A density functional theory study. The Journal of Chemical Physics 139 (12) , 124708. 10.1063/1.4822040

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

We have used density functional theory calculations to investigate the interaction between methylamine (CH3NH2) and the dominant surfaces of mackinawite (FeS), where the surface and adsorption properties of mackinawite have been characterized using the DFT-D2 method of Grimme. Our calculations show that while the CH3NH2 molecule only interacts weakly with the most stable FeS(001), it adsorbs relatively strongly on the FeS(011) and FeS(100) surfaces releasing energies of 1.26 eV and 1.51 eV, respectively. Analysis of the nature of the bonding reveals that the CH3NH2 molecule interacts with the mackinawite surfaces through the lone-pair of electrons located on the N atom. The electron density built up in the bonding region between N and Fe is very much what one would expect of covalent type of bonding. We observe no significant adsorption-induced changes of the FeS surface structures, suggesting that amine capping agents would not distort the FeS nanoparticle surfaces required for active heterogeneous catalytic reactions. The vibrational frequencies and the infrared spectra of adsorbed methylamine have been calculated and assignments for vibrational modes are used to propose a kinetic model for the desorption process, yielding a simulated temperature programmed desorption with a relative desorption temperature of <140 K at the FeS(011) surface and <170 K at FeS(100) surface.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Chemistry
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry
Publisher: AIP Publishing
ISSN: 0021-9606
Last Modified: 06 Jul 2023 02:06
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/112547

Citation Data

Cited 48 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item Edit Item